Why do people...

[hoopdriver]

Or use repetitively redundant tautologies such as: general consensus of opinion

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

The needless inclusion of the word 'just' when describing the age of someone young or below a certain age.

'He was just 22...'


Sorry, but when exactly do you stop being 'just'??

 

[BrumJim]

....press the up AND down arrow when calling a lift? And then get confused when the next lift that arrives is going in the wrong direction?

 

[BrumJim]

... never go to church though out the entire year, but insist on cramming the place out on Christmas Eve. Either you're a Christian or you're not. If you are, then do it properly and go regularly, if not then don't be a hypocrite.

Personally I like the idea that Christmas gets people into church. Some people's perception of what a church is like seems to be based on a cliché from before they were even born.

 

[Archie_tect]

say 'quite' unique.... it either is or it isn't.
Or, do you want 'the big half'....

 

[Night Train]

...use the prefix 'The year' two thousand? Did our predecessors use the prefix 'The year' 1900?

 

[swee'pea99]

Or use repetitively redundant tautologies such as: general consensus of opinion

Totally OT, but this reminds me of when I was taking French O Level, and one of the parts you had to do was a composition of at least x many words - 250 or something. Our teacher gave us a brilliant crib sheet of phrases to soak up your words, the Big Daddy of which was (and it says something that I can still recall it easily, getting on 40 years later): Ce qu'il y a de certain c'est que - which counts as 10 words, to say, literally, 'that which is certain is that' - ie, precisely bugger all.

 

[hoopdriver]

I like the people who board an aircraft, clutching their boarding pass and studying it closely as they proceed s-l-o-w-l-y down the aisle, then looking up and moving their lips as they read the aisle numbers to themselves - the very picture of intense concentration. And then somehow they manage to plop themselves down in seat 22C when their boarding pass actually reads 54G

 

[Silver Fox]

...... squeeze their car in between two other vehicles when half the car park is empty.

 

[swee'pea99]

...think it's a good idea to call a gas meter fitter a 'Smart Energy Expert'...

 

[Trickedem]

Think that the batteries powering their flashing rear lights last for ever.

 

[Ron-da-Valli]

Think they are Americans and/or gangsta rappers, everything is "awesome",say ass instead of arse, and call everyone guys. They say gonna instead of going to, wanna instead of want to.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

...assume I use sat nav!

 

[Fnaar]

The needless inclusion of the word 'just' when describing the age of someone young or below a certain age.
'He was just 22...'
Sorry, but when exactly do you stop being 'just'??

But that 'just' serves a particular function, i.e. to emphasise that what has happened is in some way shocking, unfortunate etc. "He was just 22 when he discovered he had incurable arthritis" etc

...use the prefix 'The year' two thousand? Did our predecessors use the prefix 'The year' 1900?

I blame Zager & Evans

 

[vernon]

The needless inclusion of the word 'just' when describing the age of someone young or below a certain age.

'He was just 22...'


Sorry, but when exactly do you stop being 'just'??

When you become a referee.